Support - General questions

Frequently Asked Questions

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I have ordered a course but I have heard nothing from you yet...

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Is the training per person, or for my whole school?
The licences are split up into different bandings according to the number of staff/volunteers you would like to receive the training.

Each licence is valid for 12 months.

Under the Add this product option on each course page, you will be able to see the current pricing structure for each licence bracket for that particular course.

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I've requested a password reset but haven't heard anything. Why?
After you request a password reset, you should receive a confirmation email almost immediately.
If you do not receive the email it is possible that your mail service has blocked our email.
Please add support@ssslearning.co.uk to your email white list and then try resetting your
password again.

How many times can a User access the training or attempt the assessment?
A user can access the system an unlimited number of times during the licence period.

Some of my team are not on email. Does this matter?
If some team members are not on your organisation's email system, simply post the single access key
and our training web address https://training.ssscpd.co.uk on your noticeboard. You and your employees
can use this information to access the service. Users will need an email address of some type e.g.
@yahoo, @gmail etc. to register their account.

How do my staff access the training materials?
They should go to:https://training.ssscpd.co.uk
and follow the on-screen instructions. They will require your account access key to begin.

The course videos are not playing on my device.

If your establishment uses a firewall, and you block access to Vimeo (http://vimeo.com), please
ensure you add the following URLs to your Firewall whitelist.

Who needs to be trained in your school, academy or early years setting?
Sam Preston, our safeguarding specialist, advises:

"In terms of Prevent Duty, FGM, Child Protection 1 and 2 and CSE, all staff should receive safeguarding
training as each area contains specific reporting duties which all staff need to understand in order to
implement safeguarding effectively. With volunteers it is a question of how you use and manage those
volunteers. The difficulty when not training volunteers is that they are not fully equipped to identify
risks and that in turn impacts on the sharing of information. In terms of your training provision, OSFTED
or your Local Authority cannot prescribe how you train your staff, or specify the method of training
undertaken. What they will examine is whether the quality of training is appropriate and resulting
knowledge levels meets the standards expected. This is why we have aligned all our training across the
board to meet the OFSTED Common Inspection Framework."

What level of training should I be offering my staff?

In the past safeguarding training specifications were often talked about in levels. Today, unless that is the language used by your Tri-partnership or Local Authority's own training policy, training should be not be described in terms of levels, for example, as ‘Level 3 training’, but by the role it is aimed at. Training is often advertised as, eg. Level 3, but in different areas, Level 3 means different content. Therefore it is essential that schools & academies always check what content is being described and who the training is aimed at. In line with this we have designed our training in line with the Intercollegiate Framework, which matches competencies to roles.

Yes. When considering purchasing training it is important to ensure your provider's content fully complies
with HM Government cross departmental requirements and the practice expected within the Ofsted Common Inspection
Framework. During inspection, inspectors will examine staff training records and explore if the knowledge base
is sound and practice is robust.

Why should I choose SSS Learning's online training over paying a specialist consultant to visit my school or academy?

A consultant's session is fixed on a particular date, time and location, and is limited by number in each class
either for reasons of room size or provision for classroom cover. This can leave some staff without training. Our
secure online training can be accessed 24/7/365 from any PC, MAC, Tablet or Smartphone at any location with an
Internet connection.

If you have licenced our safeguarding suite, all your staff would have access to the full range of safeguarding
topics, too many to deliver, even across several consultancy sessions, for the full 12-month term of the licence.

The courses will be available for induction of any new staff throughout the 12-month licence period, something that
a consultant could not cover, without significant expense to the school or academy.

If staff receive training from a consultant, followed closely by a legislation or policy change, how do they know
that change has come into effect? Our online system is kept up-to-date with any changes notified to you and the courses
updated.

Our training provides you with a meaningful evidence base. Your Admin dashboard allows you to monitor each
individual member of staff's progress, number of attempts at taking the assessment and an audit trail for CPD evidence.
The courses can also be used for governance training.

How do I issue a training course?

In the admin portal click on the blue 'issue a training course' button on the top left of the screen, then tick the courses you would like users to do. The email template will then be created. Then when you click anywhere on the template it will highlight in blue, then just right click your mouse and copy. Then paste it into your own email and send out to your team. The template email has the instructions for staff. They just have to go to https://training.ssscpd.co.uk enter their email and paste in the access key from the template email, then they set up their account.

Can I archive users that have left my school or academy?

If you have been using the system for more than one year you can archive users from your admin dashboard. On the admin home page click the button 'archive trainee accounts'. Then just tick the check boxes for the ones you want to archive and then click on 'archive the selected users' at the bottom of the page.

Can users change their email address used to set up their account?

If users login under their current address they can go into account settings and change the email. Alternatively, in the admin portal you can edit email addresses under "Show list of trainees".

How do I get access to a safeguarding specialist?

Log in to your admin dashboard and click on the "Safeguarding Support" button on the homepage. Enter your query and press submit. One of our experts will respond to your query.

How much does the service cost?

The price depends on the number of users and the courses chosen. To find out an individual course price go to the course library, choose a course and click on the "buy now" button. Then enter the number of users into the calculator which will display the cost of your chosen course. The safeguarding suite is the most cost-effective option.

Have the courses been updated in line with KCSIE 2018?

All our courses are updated in line with the new 'Keeping children safe in education' 2018 and 'Working together to safeguard children' 2018.

How long does it take to complete a course?

Please see the list of courses below with their approximate completion times:

Child Protection &hyphen; 2 hours

Child Sexual Exploitation &hyphen; 1 hour

Female Genital Mutilation Awareness and Reporting &hyphen; 1 hour

Safer Recruitment &hyphen; 1 hour

Risk Assessment &hyphen; 1 hour

Policy in Practice &hyphen; 1 hour

Prevent Duty &hyphen; 1 hour

Honour Based Violence &hyphen; 1 hour

Forced Marriage &hyphen; 1 hour

Designated Safeguarding Lead training &hyphen; 6 hours

Designated Safeguarding Lead refresher &hyphen; 3 hours

Health and Safety &hyphen; 1.5 hours

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) &hyphen; 1 hour

e-Safety &hyphen; 1 hour

Child Protection refresher &hyphen; 1 hour

Safeguarding Thematics &hyphen; 1 hour

Safeguarding for Governance &hyphen; 1 hour

How often should training be carried out?

DfE Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance emphasises the importance of regular updates and annual safeguarding/child protection training so we recommend the training be carried out annually.

Have OFSTED approved the training?

All our courses are fully CPD accredited however the DfE, Ofsted etc., do not validate any training for any provider. Our service has been used extensively in several thousand schools and academies and in schools/academies that have received excellent reviews of their safeguarding training by Ofsted. Swain house school is an example that is listed in our "reviews " section of our website.

What happens when I sign up?

When a school or academy subscribes to the service, they receive their secure admin login (https://admin.ssscpd.co.uk). From the admin interface, you simply copy the course invitation email template and send it to staff. This means there is no complicated account set up, as staff set up their own account (https://training.ssscpd.co.uk) in just a few minutes.

As soon as staff start the training, you will then see progress, results and CPD certificates at your admin dashboard.

What is included in the "Safeguarding Suite"?

Our courses within the Safeguarding Suite include:

Female Genital Mutilation

Child Sexual Exploitation

Risk Assessment

Child Protection (2 part course)

Policy in Practice

Safer Recruitment

Forced Marriage

Honour Based Violence

Prevent Duty

Designated Safeguarding Lead Training (2 part course)

Designated Safeguarding Lead Refresher

Health and Safety

General Data Protection Regulation

E-safety

Child Protection Refresher

Safeguarding Thematics - Overview and Refresher

Safeguarding for Governance

The Safeguarding Suite also includes our regular newsletter updates and any updates to existing courses and access to any new courses released during the 12 month licence period. Updates and new courses will be automatically added to your suite and we'll notify you via email.

Where do I log in to do a course?

The user website where staff complete the training is located at this address:
https://training.ssscpd.co.uk

Where do I log in to the admin dashboard to issue courses and view results?

The admin dashboard is located at this address:
https://admin.ssscpd.co.uk